University of Johannesburg to include AI courses in all degrees

[Jan]

University of Johannesburg making AI courses compulsory for all qualifications

The University of Johannesburg is making artificial intelligence (AI) courses compulsory in all qualifications offered at the learning institution.

The news came from the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies' AI Institute launch, for which it partnered with the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).

 

[rvZA]

Lol... what a f**kup....

 

[porchrat]

What the hell does an English major need an AI course for. Christ on a stick.

 

[rvZA]

What the hell does an English major need an AI course for. Christ on a stick.

These "clever" oakes thinks no one will ever be unemployed again....

She said universities in South Africa would no longer churn out graduates that “are going to walk the streets of unemployment”.

What a f**kup this country is facing! What a disservice they have brought upon this country and its people!

 

[borro]

 

[yebocan]

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LOL,...you can not unseen the sag ..I was like wtf...things all going south...

 

[porchrat]

These "clever" oakes thinks no one will ever be unemployed again....



What a f**kup this country is facing! What a disservice they have brought upon this country and its people!

I'm not entirely sure how a quick AI course is going to make it any easier for a gender studies major to find work, but good for them I suppose.

 

[yebocan]

University of Johannesburg making AI courses compulsory for all qualifications

The University of Johannesburg is making artificial intelligence (AI) courses compulsory in all qualifications offered at the learning institution.

The news came from the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies' AI Institute launch, for which it partnered with the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT).

just getting everyone ready, for when the new overlords AI take over occurs...this has all happen before, and will happen again and again and again... So say we all

 

[Mystic Twilight]

There are going to be a lot more failures/dropouts, ai courses are not easy.

 

[Polymathic]

Sounds like a buzzword cash grab to me

 

[Easter Bunny]

i guess it was a tight race between AI and blockchain.

 

[Fuzzbox]

The ministers that think up these ideas definitively have artificial intelligence.

 

[surface]

I don't see relevance but it depends on what they teach at AI courses. Many schools have robotics starting at Grade 1 and it doesn't mean Grade 1 are designing mars rovers.

 

[Pegasus]

She said universities in South Africa would no longer churn out graduates that “are going to walk the streets of unemployment”.

“They are going to churn out graduates that are going to make a meaningful contribution in society and become job creators in their own space because they would have learned about AI,” Ntshavheni added.

Yeah, I don't see this solving the problem. Maybe just provide only the AI course instead of the other courses?

 

[SLAQ]

What the hell does an English major need an AI course for. Christ on a stick.

A new wave of ML linguistics is pretty much here:

ChatGPT

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

chat.openai.com

I don't think the combination of ML and language is totally fruitless. However, as with all careers, AI/ML is going to require people to become specialists in a field or topic. Having 100 000 English majors with AI, but no further specialisation, is still going to result in a lot of unemployed graduates.

 

[Skerminkel]

I assume all these students are already doing solid courses in programming/coding and mathematics? AI, ML, 4thIR are ll just buzz words without these.

 

[porchrat]

A new wave of ML linguistics is pretty much here:

ChatGPT

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

chat.openai.com

I don't think the combination of ML and language is totally fruitless. However, as with all careers, AI/ML is going to require people to become specialists in a field or topic. Having 100 000 English majors with AI, but no further specialisation, is still going to result in a lot of unemployed graduates.

I highly doubt these students are going to learn anything practically applicable about AI like how to implement or something.

It's going to be like how everyone is required to take some barely customised ethics course.

They'll finish the course knowing what the acronym stands for... maybe.

 

[potter123]

by "AI" I assume they'll actually be basic stats and intro to programming courses...?

 

[Benedict A55h0le]

by "AI" I assume they'll actually be basic stats and intro to programming courses...?

Why does a human need basic stats and programming to benefit from AI? The AI can do all that.

 

[konfab]

What the hell does an English major need an AI course for. Christ on a stick.

I completely approve of all graduates in every needing to pass a machine learning module in order to graduate.